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16 Cards in this Set
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group of countries that controls where oil goes and how much it costs
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OPEC
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influence from the West, when extremists use violence to make changes
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Islamic fundamentalism
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wars won by Israel with conflict between its neighbors in occupied territories
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Six Day War 1967
Yom Kipper War 1973 |
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wars won by Israel with conflict between its neighbors in occupied territories (1973)
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Yom Kipper War
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Israel's prime minister during the wars
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Golda Meir
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leader of Egypt, who signed the Camp David Accords with Egypt
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Anwar Sadat
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leader of Israel, who signed the Camp David Accords with Egypt
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Menachem Begin
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1977 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
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Camp David Accords
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led by Arafat, formed to destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestine state
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PLO (Palestine liberation organization)
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a violent uprising by Palestinians against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the late 1980s
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intifada
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prime minister of Israel that signs the OSLO Accords, shot by a Jewish college student against this peace process
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Yitzhak Rabin
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radical group from Lebanon, who does not want to make peace
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Hamas
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takes over after Yasir Arafat, dies in 2004
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Mahmoud Abbas
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becomes prime minister and eases tension between PLO and Israel by making Israel settlers leave Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank
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Ariel Sharon
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religious leader of Iran who captures embassy when the U.S. doesn't give the shah back
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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Iran-Iraq War because
1. argue over where the border is at 2. Iran wants the Shiite Muslims in Iraq to revolt against Saddam |
Iranian Revolution
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